Pitts Portraits, tax on Windows, some people sealed up their windows to avoid the tax. Rail bridge over Forth, built in 1890 was largest steel bridge in world. Still largest cantilever Dunkeld Cathedral Walk in the Hermitage forest to the folly, building with no real purpose built in early 1800's and used for meditation and smoking opium. Nice …

I booked a 2 day tour with Rabbie's to try and see a bit of the highlands in a short amount of time.

There were just four of us on the bus (a Mum and two teenage girls from Hong Kong) plus the driver so it was a very easy tour. In "It's a Small World - Episode 4", it turns out one of the girls did a study year in Perth a couple of years …

It was a peaceful, comfortable night at the cabin and warm temperatures and a sheepdog named Meg greeted us this morning. I had seen photos of Meg on Facebook and heard quite a bit about her from Helen. She belongs to the farm across the road and is a special, special dog in that she is a very loving and friendly sheepdog. Meg is also a hard …

Last night i arrived in Edinburgh around 9.30pm and by the time i got my self to the hostel cooked some dinner and had a shower it was 11.45pm so i decided to settled in bed ealry as the next day was going to be a big busy day :).

This morning began at a very early hour! I had set my alarm for 7am giving me enough time to get my self …

Today has been a very busy day, so I'll start with yesterday and ease you into it! After finally hopping on my flight from Abu Dhabi to Manchester I think sat on the tarmac for over an hour before actually getting of the ground. I'm not quite sure how long we were there, that was about eh best sleep I had the whole plane trip. Every so often I'd …

Why do tour guides in this county want to make tourists say "ayyyyye" .... So today saw in my Haggis Tour. I made the decision to buy a duffel type bag that would easily fit in my suitcase to take on these trips, and store my suitcase filled with all my tourist junk etc at the motel I'm staying at pre and post. So I had to lug that up Lungburn …

I have just had the best week! I booked myself on another tour with Haggis tours up to the Highlands and Isle of Skye. The scenery was stunning! So we set off from Edinburgh on Saturday the 14th June. I went with my friend living in London Yvette. She came up on the train the night before on the Friday. Our guide Eughain (pretty sure that's the …

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... 13hour sleep we got up and ready for a full on day of adventure. First up was the local township – Dunkeld. We visited DunkeldCathedral which half is used for church services and the back half were in ruins and inside held headstones. Beautiful ...

... I into Pitlochry again for a quick walkabout what a quaint little village. On the road back we stopped in at Dunkeld where there is a medieval cathedral which stands infron tof ruins, we looked about in awe at such a unbeilveable site. I love ruins, and ...

... pleased the main road no longer runs through their village, affording them peace and tranquility. We then continued to move onto Dunkeld, a cathedral town sitting at the confluence of the river Braan and the wide river Tay. The cathedral dates back 1400 ...

... ad have a riverside picnic as I sat and watched the beautiful River Tay flow by and then took a quick tour of the DunkeldCathedral. The cathedral as it stands now dates back to 1318 and was partly destroyed during the reformation of the church, but this ...

... lunch we hit the road again and arrived at Dunkeld early afternoon , booked in to the hotel and went for a wander to see the cathedral. This is a mediaval one so the front if still used as a church and the rear is just ruins but it is quite beautiful. ...